Automobile headlight



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AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGET Filegl Nov. 8, 1927 JNVENTOR. John W 6'! Greg ATTORNE Y.

Patented Apr. 2, 1929. i

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i JOHN W. ST. ORES, OF ELLENDALE, NORTHDAKOTA.

I AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT.

Application filed November 8, 1927. Serial No. 231,853.

This invention relates to improvements in My attachment is shown at 5,and it conheadlights for automobiles, and more parsists in the preferredform of a flat disk of 45 ticularly to a device to be combined with ancelo-glass having an aperture 6 to receive the ordinary headlight forreducing glare. stem 7 of the light bulb, which stem isse- Recentlythere has been placed on the cured to the socket by the ordinary bayonetmarket, a material known as celo-glass, joint. which is formed of asheet of ordinary wire The disk, as shown in Fig. 1, may extend 50netting impregnated or coated with a flexfrom the stem 7 to the innersurface ofthe ible transparent substance which renders the reflector 2,but in practice, I prefer to make 10 netting imperforate. the disk ofonly slightly larger diameter than I have discovered that if a disk orfrustothe light bulb, as I have found in practice cone of this materialis placed within the that a disk of this size accomplishes the de- 55parabolic reflector of an ordinary headlight, sired result.

' and behind the light bulb, it will reduce the The disk is formed of abase of wire net- 1 ting 8, and the interstices of the netting are Theprimary object of the invention is to closed by a flexible transparentfilling or combine with an ordinary headlight, a decoating 9, made ofcellulose acetate or cellu- 60 vice made of celo-glass, which willreduce lose nitrate mixed with a suitable plasticizer; the glare from aheadlight. this mixture being dissolved with a suitable \Vith theforegoingobject outlined, an solvent. The filler orcoating of such adisk with other objects in view which will appear expands and contractswith the metal of the as the description proceeds, my invention netting,so that the disk is not afi'ected by the 65 consists in the novelfeatures hereinafter deheat from the light bulb.

scribed in detail, illustrated in the accom- From the foregoing, Ibelieve that the inpany drawing, and more particularly pointed ventionmay be readily understood by those out in the appended claim. skilled inthe art, and I desire it to be underj A {eferring to the drawing, stoodthat instead of employing a disk or 70 Fig. 1 is a side View of anordinary headthe like of celo-glass, I may employ a disk light, partlyin vertical longitudinal secor the like or any material having the charton, and showing my improvement applied acteristics 0f(1el0--gla$s.

thereto. .What I claim and desire to secure by Let- Fig. 2 is atransverse vertical sectional ters Patent is: I 75 v1ew,'taken on line2-2 of Fig. 1. An attachment for headlights, comprising Fig. 3 is a planview of the preferred form a fiat screen supported centrally between theof my attachment. 7 light bulb and the reflector of the headlight,

In the drawing, 1 designates the casing, 2 said screen consisting of anannular disk of the parabolic reflector, 3 the light bulb and wirenetting impregnated with a flexible' 4 the bulb socket of an ordinaryheadlight. translucent, light ditfusing and reflecting I have used sucha conventional form of headmaterial. 40 light to disclose my invention,but I wish it understood that my attachment may be used 7 J IV. ST;ORES. with any lamp in which the light bulb is placed in front of areflector.

